steamboat
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The extension of canals and steamboat travel to some extent complemented, rather than competed with, the road’s livelihood.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Four years after completing her studies, Flora married Edwin Patterson of Ripley, Ohio, and they settled in nearby Cincinnati where he was a steamboat pilot.
From Scientific American • Jan. 26, 2023
Previously, travelers had to take a canoe, steamboat, sailboat or train.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2022
Seaman’s manslaughter was enshrined after steamboat disasters killed hundreds of people in fires and boiler explosions.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2022
For example, in 1837 the Mandan Indian tribe, with one of the most elaborate cultures in our Great Plains, contracted smallpox from a steamboat traveling up the Missouri River from St. Louis.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing steamboat
The Industrial Revolution - Introductory
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